 | George Luxford, Edward Newman - 1844 - 554 pages
...select, and the guide to their observation and selection was no other than the Linuaean system. In the scientific hive as in the apiary, there must be...acquiring and arranging information is a great help to the workman of science, and no department has gained more thereby than Botany, which, through the facilities... | |
 | Nicholas Jardine, J. A. Secord, E. C. Spary - 1996 - 528 pages
...'universal language'. More literally than he realized, Forbes celebrated the Linnaean system because an 'easy means of acquiring and arranging information is a great help to the workmen of science'.29 For the same reason, and possibly because he had heard that the Royton blacksmith Bentley... | |
 | Jonathan Rose - 2001 - 548 pages
..."universal language," proclaimed Edward Forbes, professor of botany at King's College London, in 1843. An "easy means of acquiring and arranging information...science, and no department has gained more thereby than botany.""6 By the twentieth century, university-trained professionals had taken over the business of... | |
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It the scientific hive as in the apiary there must be working-bees and neuters as well as queens and drones : it is necessary for the economy of the commonwealth. An easy means of acquiring and arranging information is a great help to the workmen of science,... 